If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.

Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.